A brief look at the limits of skepticism in a modern world of alternative remedies, spiritual growth and psychic phenomena. [more >>]

Restricting dietary sugar and processed carbohydrate is as important to health as cutting down on saturated fats. So those low fat foods and meal replacements laced with hidden sugars are counter-productive! [more >>]

Any teacher who declares his or her enlightenment, using it to attract a following, is greatly harmful to spiritual progress. [more >>]

Pusztai's experience indicates the depths to which the biotechnology industry will sink to prevent the public knowledge of the dangers of GM foods. [more >>]

Racism has been responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in history. But will we ever be able to stamp it out by the denial that racial difference may be more than skin-deep? [more >>]

John de Ruiter gives the best impersonation of enlightenment this side of Galili. But all is not what it seems… [more >>]

Stephen Byrnes wrote The Myths of Vegetarianism in the Townsend Letter in which he smugly rubbishes vegetarianism. This is a vegetarian's reponse to that article. [more >>]

If we do not act now to stop this biotechnological insanity, our descendants will look back with incredulity at a generation that sold every last family heirloom for a quick cash fix. [more >>]

It is very easy to assume, because we vote, we live in a democracy. But although the form of our society still seems democratic, power is migrating from the people to corporations. [more >>]

99% of the New Age is just "old age" thinking dressed up with a new and expanded vocabulary. At its core, New Ageism is just as limiting to true spiritual growth, which can only be found by facing reality in the raw. [more >>]

Peter Rae's rational and impassioned appeal for more caution in new methods of food production. [more >>]

Spirituality is often seen as an avoidance of reality, a hinderance to change in society. After all, people in spiritual practice are usually focused inward and upward. Paradoxically it offers the only path to true global healing. [more >>]

On Wednesday 13th March 2002, new bureaucratic legislation was undemocratically passed by the European Parliament that will outlaw most of the food supplements currently available in health shops. [more >>]

There are two approaches that we can make to our doctor when we are unwell. The first sees us assuming the traditional role of the meek patient whereas the second sees us as a "pain in the arse" survivor. [more >>]

Democracy is not a passive inheritance; it is the ongoing relationship between citizen and government that demands the citizen be politically active. [more >>]